He also writes and records music with his original band and tours with many nationally and internationally known artists. Schauss is signed to Steve Vai's Favored-Nations/ Digital-Nations label and is working on a new CD following his very successful The Lightspeeder release.

Additionally, he writes music for video games, commercials, and TV. He is also an author for a very popular monthly guitar column "Instant Shredding" in Germany's biggest guitar magazine Gitarre & Bass. The July 2008 Issue of Guitar World Magazine has listed him as one of the fastest guitarists of all time.